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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The United States liquor traders
have agreed to raise, by trade tax,
$1,5OO,OOO for political purposes in
1888
SPEAKING of drinking, it may be OBJ
served that the man who ''can take it
or leave it alone" most always takes
it.-KinderhoOk Rough Notes.
The Cumberland Presbytery of Ten
nessee at its recent session resolved
that its members should give their aid
to every movement having for its OBJ
iect the suppression of intemperance;
and it was further agreed that all the
churches of that denomination should
'take bold stand in favor of the con-
stitutional amendment to be voted on
in September. " This is new departure
for Presbyterianism.-M Y. Sun.
The chemist of the Massachusetts
State Board of Health has recently an
alyzed a large number Of so-called
Temperance drinks, and has found
that all of them contained alcohol, one
of them contained as much as 44.3 per
cent. Several of them contain more
than 40 per cent, and a very large
proportion of them more than 20 per
cent. One of these, which was found
to contain 41.6 per cent. of alcohol, is
said by its manufacturer to be: "a
purely vegetable extract, stimulus to
the body without intoxicating. Pub
lie ODiniO11
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What ] Have Heard.

Il have heard" says DR.. Guthrie,
''the wall of children for bread, and
have seen the babe pulling at breasts
as dry as if the starved mother was
dead. / have known father to turn a
step-dauohter into the street at night,
bidding the sobbing girl, who was
blooming into wOmanhood, to earn her
bread as others were doing. l have
bent over the foul pallet of dying lad.
to hear him whisper that his father and
mother, who were sitting half drunk
by the fire-side, had pulled the blank
cts off his body to sell for drink. [
have seen the children blanched like
plants growing in a cellar-for weeks
they never breathed breath of fresh
air-for the want of rags to cover their
nakedness, and they lived in continual
terror of drunken father or neither
coming home to beat them. | do not
recollect ever seeing a mother in these
wretched dwellings handling her in
FAINT, or of hearing the little creature
crow or laugh. These are some of
drinks doings, but nobody can know
the misery l suffered amid those scenes
of wretchedness, woe, want and sin. "a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
CARE OF PASTURES.
Successful Way of Preventing the u
even Growth of Grass

A Successful Way of Preventing the I'M
even Growth of Grass.
When pastures are not grazed very
closely, and liberal and luxuriant
growth of grass is permitted, it often
happens that masses and patches of
the grass will run up to seed, and be-
come too dry and hard for the animals
to touch it. When this occurs, the
pasture is diminished in value, and
does not afford so much feed as when
the whole is Il uniform mass of succu-
lent heritage. Thrifty farmers prevent
this uneven appearance by passing a
reaping machine over the field with the
knives set about ten inches high,
cutting off the heads of such grass as
may have begun to form seeds, laying
open the green heritage below, and
giving the whole field an even and
handsome appearance. The defect in
this treatment is not doing the work
soon enough, the grass below having
become too ripe, and some exhaustion
having already occurred in the forma-
ton of the seed heads The work
should therefore be performed before
the heads have fairly made their ap-
pearance, preserving the green and
fresh mass over the whole field.
Another and an important advan-
tage attends this treatment in new
pastures. Annual weeds often accom-
pany the growth of the young grass,
and disfgure the fields. Cutting these
off with the reaper at the proper time
will prevent the ripening or farming
of the seeds, and assist in eradicating
them and in forming perfect pasture.
During unusually moist summers, the
growth of grass in pastures will some
times be much heavier than is required
to supply the demands of the grazing
herd. In this case, the tield may be
made to serve the purpose of both
meadow and pasture, by cutting the
grass eight or nine inches high just
before the forming of the seed raking
this early cut of grass for hay, and
leaving a handsome pasture. The
many acres which reaper will go
over in a day, will repay several times
over in their improved condition all
the labor required. Couat2u Gentle.
man.
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VALUE OF SHEEP.
Why They Are Almost Indispensable to
Successful Farming.


We consider sheep as a necessary
adjunct to good farming for the fol-
lowing reasons: For their size and
the amount Of food they consume,
they make more valuable returns in
manure than any other animals on the
place. In the pasture in the summer
their droppings are more evenly dis
tributed over the land, and in winter
in working down the refuse straw in
to manure, their droppings are more
intimately interSnixed Herewith than
are those of either horse or cow.
In order to obtain the best results
from sheep, however, it is necessary
that they have the run of late fall
and spring pasture when there is little
or no grass, for which purpose there is
nothing better than a field of early
sown rye. Indeed it is surprising
that farmers generally do not see and
appreciate the superior advantages of
a rye pasture for such purposes, both
for sheep and mich cows. An acre of
rye sown in August or September on
which a few dollars worth of fertilizers
are spent, will afford abundant pastur-
age for a COW for five or six weeks in
early spring when there is no other
green food to be had, and then not
only produce better crop, but in
crease the yield of butter and milk to
such degree as to considerably more
than not to be forgotten is a portable
fence, by means of which tA sheep, to-
gether with few cattle, can be penned
at night on the poorest parts of their
summer range, which from time to
time, as the fence is removed, should
be sown with grass seed and well har-
rowed over, and thus a considerable
quantity of the land be improved with
but little expense while the cattle will
prove an ample protection to the sheep
from dogs.
Another great advantage sheep have
over other farm stock is their immuni-
ty from contagious diseases. 1t is true
they sometimes get the scab, rot or
something of the sort, which, if allowed
to run unchecked, may possibly carry
some of them off. But these diseases
are generally of such character as
yield readily to treatment A lot of
hogs may be fed on corn for months,
and about the time they are ready for
market some disease-no one knows
what attacks and carries them off, one
by one, until few if, any, are left. This
is no unusual occurrence, while sheep
are happily exempt from any such rapid
and fearful mortality. Besides, when
sheep dies, as sometimes they will, it
never dies in debt to its owner-its pelt
being sufficient to pay for it's keep as
much as twelve months after its last
shearing. -Baltimore San.
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THE GOLDEN BERYL.
An Experts Description of a New Stone
Which Is Growing Popular.

An Experts Description of a New Stone
Which Is Growing Popular.
SIS there any thing new in gems?"
a well-knoWn dealer in precious stones
was asked.
"The only thing 1 can think of at
this moment" replied the dealer, sis
the golden beryl, which has recently
made its appearance in the jewelry
market. The distinctive feature of
this stone is that it is native only in
this country. 1t has been pronounced
by Prof. Dana, of Yale College, as
different in color from any thing he
has ever before seen. Beryl stones
have been discovered in both hemi-
spheres, and include various colors,
among them the emerald and aqua
marine. Formerly it was classified rs
u different species from the emerald,
but modern mineralogists classify the
fine green tint as the same species.
The beryl has never attained any
great popularity in this country, but
in England it is priced as highly.as the
topaz in Spain. A blue beryl sur
mounts the glove in the crown of Great
Britain. In the Hope collection, in
London, there is single gem which is
valued at $4,000. A specimen of aqua
marine beryle found in Russia in 1927
was valued at $11,600. Many beryl
gems have been brought here from ST.
IBERIA, but as the stone was not gener-
ally known it was called by some other
name-as the sapphire and other ORR
entail stones. The beryl is always
found in deposits of mica, with granite
or gneiss. The golden beryl was dis
covered in mine of this character in
Connecticut. 1t is found attached to
rock composed of quartz, turmaline,
spar and mica. Other beryls have been
found there, but much was Opaque and
unfit for gems.
"After the golden beryl had been de-
clared to be new mineral it was
placed in the hands of a lapidary to be
cut into gems. The result was the pro-
duction of gem which has excited
considerable study and interest in the
diamond trade. Three shades of golden
colors were obtained. One was pro-
nounced, and the other shade less
than this and trife deeper than the
third, which is faint. It's hardness is
81 as compared with the diamond
standard of 10 by actual test. This
quality has been found sufficient to en-
able it to obtain its brilliancy. Its spe-
cific gravity is 20 per cent. less than
the diamond, and its density ranks
next to that most precious of stones.
Its transparency is greater than is
characteristic of other colored gems,
and the play of light it affords is some
what similar to that of the diamond.
j The gems are being used in bracelets,
brooches, rings and ornamental de-
signs for evening wear, and in nearly
every instance are mounted with dia-
| monds. They rank in value with
stones other than diamonds. They are
being exported in limited numbers to
London and the continent, and have
been shown by the the court jewel
ers. The crystals have been found in
small quantities, and it is question
whether many more will be obtained.
But even as it is, the deposit is consid-
cred remarkable one by expert min
eralooists. ~ Y Letter
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
ChaunceY M. Depew on the Drink
Question.

Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, of New
York, made speech few days ago
to the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, that contains vast amount
of solid, hard, common sense. 1t is
worth the most serious consideration
especially by young men just starting
out upon a life career:
Looking back upon a life OF nearly
fifty years remember those who
started with me. All of those who
were sober and industrious and saved
their money now own their own house
holds; but every one of those who
drank is dead.
If there is one place in the world
where drinking can not be permitted
it is on railway. A man who was
employed by me was discharged for
drinking He had held many promi-
nent positions. He had been a super
visor of his town, a senator, and a
member of the assembly, and his
friends protested against his being
thrown out of employment after hav-
ing had an honorable career. l told
them that the engineer and the fire.
man had right to believe that the
station agent knew what he was doing;
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then. at wide intervals. Asher Brad

then, at wide intervals, Asher Brad
shaw returned to Stanberry to collect
supplies, or recruit for the army; and
if he and Mercy CHANGED to meet,
their only recognition was a formal
courtesy. However, IN a seemingly
careless way. she managed to gather
from the housemaids whatever news
was current in the town. and often, as
| she listened to stories of the soldiers
suffering, her eyes grew wet; and
and old linen Eunice Filder, the house
keeper, received at her hands, and
which, being an ardent patriot, she at
once dispatched to the army.
Slowly but surely, with varying
fortunes, the war went on, and Tren-
ton was taken, and Burgoyne forced
to surrender, and the Cowpens won.
And then, one day, there came post
to Stanberry that the battle of Eutaw
Springs had been fought, and among
the slain was Colonel Asher Bradshaw.
News travelled but slowly then, and it
was weeks before letter came that he
had not been killed, but only badly
wounded, and as soon as he was able
was coming home. And, in the mean
time, the joyful tidings came that
CORVALLIS had surrendered; and bells
rang out, and bon6res blazed, and
every where the people gave thanks for
peace.
"And at last, one afternoon in late
autumn, Asher Bradshaw, riding slow
ly, for his wound was not yet fully
healed and his arm was still in a
sling, rode down the familiar road,
and saw once more the loved meadows
and willow thickets that marked the
rivers course. But from the glad sight
of his own home-chimneys beyond, his
eyes came back to the red brick house
he was nearing, with it's prim-bordered
walk, and tall rose trees now leafess
and bare; and glancing up at the win
dows with longing look, he sighed
that he caught no sight of the face he
would fain have seen. But as he drew
nigh the gate, there was a rustling of
the dry leaves, and behind the half
screening hedge glimpse of a slender
figure, and he refined in his horse with
a vague but tumultuous hope of he
hardly knew what.
ode was not mistaken, for Mercy
Cuthbertson was coming swiftly down
the walk, with her eyes shining, and
soft flush tinging her whole face, and
going straight up to him, where,
springing from his horse, he waited
her, held out her hand with the single
word uttered TREMENDOUSLY, and hardly
above whisper: Welcome.
"And Asher took the fine, white hand
in his, Drowned with the stain of hard
ship and battle since they last clasped,
saying: Sweet Mistress Mercy, is it
indeed welcome to me?'
"And, lifting to his her dark eyes,
trimming with love and tears, she an
swered, shyly: Yes, Asher, it is well
come
so when Asher Bradshaw's first
born son was laid in his arms, he said
that, because had it not been for that
word the Bradshaw race would have
ended, and because to him it would al
ways be the sweetest word in all the
world, the child should bear the name
of Welcome. And since then, for four
generations, there has never failed a
Welcome Bradshaw"
"Nor shall there in the fifth" said
Grace, kissing the sleeping baby in her
lap.-EJa Thomas, IN Current.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
COM MON MANURE.
It's Decided Advantage Over All Sorts of
Manufactured Fertilizers.


Tt is quite generally understood that
barn manure has mechanical effect
on the soil which is not obtained from
commercial fertilizers; that the large
quantity of partially decayed vegeta-
ton it contains lightens up the soil and
finally adds humus to it, but cofnmer-
cial fertilizers have a tendency to ex-
haust the humus and finally harden
the soil and make it lumpy, unless the
crops be of character to leave con-
siderable quantity of vegetation to
plow under each year.
This is an advantage of barn manure
that is very generally understood by
the farmers who give the subject the
least thought; but there is another adj
vantage which is. too often entirely
overlooked, which is the chemical ac-
ton which barn manure has upon the
soil while in the process of decomposi-
ton.
When barn manure decomposes it
produces large quantities OF carbonic
acid gas which. when it mingles with
the soil, has tendency to decompcse
the soil itself, and as the soil is rich in
plant food that is locked up in the
stones, and unfavorable until separ-
ated, whatever is applied to the soil
that viii make it available is so much
gained. 1t is true, the work of decom-
position of the soil is always going on,
but SO slowly that it furnishes but a
small part of what is needed for the
growth of our forced crops.
In the woods, where Nature has her
own way and is left to gather her own
materials, the soil, by the exhalations
from the roots of the trees, is decom-
posed fast enough to fur~ish the treas
all of the mineral element necessary to
secure fair growth, and have quite a
surplus in the soil for some future
crop; but in field or garden crops we
demand such large and rapid growth
that we are compelled to assist nature
by the application of materials that are
at once available for plant food, and
whatever we can apply that will assist
Nature to manufacture plant food
more rapidly from the soil will be of
value, in addition to the chemists
valuation, so if the application of barn
yard manure to the soil assists Nature
in her wonderful and mysterious work
of converting the stones into plant
food it adds to its value, and it should
have due credit for it.
Whenever barn manure is compared
with commercial fertilizers it should
always receive credit for what it is
capable of doing in the way of hasten
ing the decomposition of the soil. AS
the plant food locked up in the soil is
inexhaustible, whatever we can apply
that will make any of it available is so
much clear gain to the farmer. It
does not, as many believe, exhaust the
soil, but rather improves it.-N. z
.HerGld.
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" WELCOME"
Why 1t Is a Family Name Among
the BradshaWs.


It's such an odd, old-fashioned
NAME" and Grace Bradshaw, the
young mother, stroked the silky hair
of the baby in her lap, whose future
cognomen was under consideration.
ri know it is" assented Grandma
Bradshaw, "but for four generations
the eldest son in the Bradshaw family
has been Welcome, my husband and
my son have borne it, and l confess it
is a very pleasant name to me-"
al can't say rs much" with half
laughing pout, Il like my Welcome a
good deal better than do his name; and
fIhad not liked him very much should
never have consented to become Mrs.
Welcome Bradshaw for life, that con-
sidered a real test Of affection"
Homely, old-fashionod names, rs
you call them" replied the old lady,
''wero more common when l was
young, so perhaps did not think so
much about them. My grandfather
was Increase, and had an Uncle Lib
Crty and an Aunt Silence, while among
our neighbors was Freegrace Appright
and Pardon Brown and Prudence
Doty; and to my mind they sound Just
as well as Claud and Maud, and Ely
Bell, and Charles Mortimer, and a lot
of new-fashioned names you hear now.
But did you ever hear how Welcome
came to be a family name among the
BradshawsP"
"WhN no; | supposed it just hap
pencd."
IF you never did, will have to tell
you the story as my husbands mother
told it to me-" and Grandma Bradshaw
wiped her glasses and carefully count
the stitches in the baby's sock she was
knitting, before she resumed: ''When
the Bradshaws first came to this coun-
try from England, they settled in
Stanberry, Mass, and it was there that
Asher Bradshaw, the only son and heir
of Genus Bradshaw, was born and or ew
to manhood. The Bradshaws had not
been poor people at home, and it was a
more than comfortable property that
young Asher was heir to, lying along
the little deep river which bordered
his fathers wide farm. Their nearest
neighbor, whose estate also lay on the
river, was Major Cuthbertson, of an
old and aristocratic English family,
the bricks in whose old Colonial man
sion had been brought from England,
as well as some of its carved mantel-
pieces. And every year boxes of goods,
lute-strings, taffetas, brocades, flow
cred dimiUys, to say nothin of fuckers,
ruflles, silk hose, satin shoes and the
like came from there, also.
LAS tokens of their elegance, it was
told among their humber townsfolks
that every room in the Majors house
was papered, and that at the marriage
of Dolly Cuthbertson, the eldest
daughter, all the wood they burned
that night was first sawed and planned;
while once, when the Major was sick,
some one going in found the wife sit
ting beside his bedside crying with her
white kid gloves on. In short the
Cuthbertsons were regarded as the
great family of the neighborhood, and
the Bradshaws may be considered next
in social rank; and were always on the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
RAISING PORK CHEAPLY.
The Good Results Obtained from Pastur
ing Hogs In Summer.

The Good Results Obtained from Pastur-
ing Hogs In Summer.
We need more grass and clover. and
less corn, upon which to make our pork.
More grass and clover means cheaper
growth and less disease. Just as the
great corn and pork producing lands
have been developed, has swine disease
sprung up and increased, because our
swine are given monotonous diet of
dry, oily food. Grass and clover are
the foods of nature, and the swine har-
vest them. They require little prepara-
ton of the ground for them, and no
cultivation. When pastured they build
up, rather than exhaust, the land; and
it can not be successfully disputed that
they are essential factors in the pro-
duction or the cheapest pork. Let the
pigs farrowed in the spring but put
on grass and clover as soon as they
are fit to be grazed, and kept on them
as long as they arerpalatable, and the
result will be pig not fat, but in good
condition and thrifty, that until fall
has large, healthy bones and muscle
and a vigorous appetite for corn.
And then it may be fed corn largely,
for this will put fat on the large frame
the pasture has made, and the hog is
vigorous enough to digest the corn
we'll; and if the hog is fatted rapidly
and marketed as soon as fully fat, it is
the cheapest pork that can be made
the cheapest, not counting loss from
disease. But swine plague rarely in
yades the pasture; its favorite place of
appearance is in the small lot, paved
with cobs and manure. The hog sum-
mered on grass and clover is so vigorous
that it rarely sickens when being fat
tened on corn largely, but also other
food, and in clean quarters with pure
water. And statistics show that elm
mating disease would add to the prof
its of pork making ten per cent. an
nually of ithe entire product. This
would certainly double profits. -Amer-
scan Agriculturist.
Matte, after studying history for
a year, wrote: "One of the principal
oo,,eos of 4bo po,-o1,,+;o,, ,,,o- 4bo C+oxd
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TEMPERANCE READING.
ONLY A GLASS.

Only a glass in the barroom,
Only single glass;
Only lack of courage,
Only the answer ''yes;"
Only an evil companion,
Slyly Turing him on;
Only ''free-hearted Charlie
And the fatal work is done.
Only little bit tipsy,"
Only blood-shot eyes,
Only a pleading mother,
Only wife's surprise;
Only an aching forehead,
Only bruised face,
Only broken promise,
Only deep disgrace.
Only a cherries shanty,
Without Are or wood.
And little half-clad children
Wailing and crying for food;
Only curses for kisses,
Only sorrow and woe,
Only drunken father,
Only an angry blow.
Only weeping children,
Only dying wife,
Only another promise
Only drunkard'S lifel
o! The woe and anguish,
What mortal tongue can tell
Only a glass in the barroom,
Only a drunkard's hell
Schuyler Sears, IN Ohio Farmer.
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that the telegraph operator was sober,
and sent the proper dispatches; that.
the keeper of the drawbridges observed
the proper signals; that the watchmen
were at their posts, and that the con-
ductor had correct orders. If either
one was drunk, murder would be COM
united, and was not going to employ
man who might be a party to it,
although unintentionally." Zap
nlause